Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill

Coal Ash Controversy

Just over a year ago more than a billion gallons of coal ash slurry containing lead, arsenic and mercury spilled out of a Tennessee Valley Authority disposal site and into the Emory River. EPA vowed to revise disposal practices by the one-year anniversary

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